7 February 2020
Primary Newsletter
Safeguarding Children As part of their curriculum, the children learn how to keep themselves safe. The following website has been set up by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to offer parents and schools advice on how to raise safeguarding awareness with children. There is a notable section called ‘The Underwear Rule’ which is of particular support and guidance to parents. The website also offers advice regarding ‘online safety’ and how to obtain support or advice regarding the safeguarding of children. www.nspcc.org.uk
Uniform Information & School Uniform Purchases The Primary uniform can be purchased through the Khalsa Schoolwear website or can be bought at Khalsa Schoolwear shop in Bethnal Green. To save on the cost of delivery charges, Khalsa Schoolwear does a school delivery once every month. You can find further details of the delivery dates on their website or you can ask the reception office staff.
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We expect every child to be in full uniform every day with their top button done up and wearing their tie All coats must be plain black Shoes must be plain black – no trainers, plimsolls or boots! If you are not sure about the types of shoes that are part of our uniform policy, please ask. Please label every item of clothing One pair of plain stud earrings can be worn Nail polish is not allowed Jewellery is not permitted Long hair for both boys and girls must be tied back. Hair decorations must be small and plain and match the school uniform
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Schools starts at 8.45am (8.35am for Year 3, 4 & Year 5). It is important that your child arrives on time every day so that the teachers can start the lesson promptly. The school gate will be open from 8.25am and will close at 8.47am.
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School finishes at 3.45pm (3.35pm for Year 3, 4 & Year 5) every day other than Tuesday when we finish at 3.00pm (2.50pm for Year 3, 4 & Year 5).
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If any of your details have changed e.g. your address or phone number – please ensure you contact the office to inform us, so that we can update our records and contact you in case of an emergency.
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Please ensure your child attends school every day and on time. If your child is sick then you must call the office to let us know by 8.15am. If your child has a medical appointment you must let us know in advance.
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From Tam Broadway – Primary Headteacher It was great to see so many of you at the coffee morning on Thursday. I spent time talking through some of the events that will be taking place for the remainder of the term and some of the highlights of the year to date that we are proud of. Some time was given to parents to give feedback on what they are happy with in the school but equally some areas for us to continue to develop. As always, we are very grateful for your time and suggestions. Minutes from the Coffee Morning will follow shortly. Please be reminded that there is no school for children on Friday 14th February due to staff training. This means that the children will break up for half term on Thursday 13th February at the usual time.
Enrichment Enrichment bookings will now be made through Wisepay and will go live at 5.00pm on Friday 7th February. The app will help make bookings and payments simpler by storing your log in and card details. This will not only be useful to make quick payments for trips and clubs. It will also be the new way in which we make Enrichment bookings. If you have lost or misplaced your Wisepay log in details, please contact the primary office before 5:00pm on Friday 7th Feb to avoid any disappointment.
Absences immediately before or after a school holiday If your child is absent before or after a school holiday we must see evidence for the absence. This may be medical evidence if your child is unwell, or evidence of flight delays or circumstances beyond your control. We cannot authorise any absences before or after a holiday without this evidence and you risk being issued with a penalty notice. Cover Photo: Indoor Athletics with Year 5! 7 February 2020 Primary Newsletter
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Year 5 Why? Who? What?
Where?
When?
The home learning for Year 5 now includes an additional ‘unseen’ comprehension text for pupils to read and answer questions about. We have incorporated this into home learning to support pupils with the test expectations that we expect for the reading papers in Year 5 and 6. Pupils should aim to read the excerpt of text in 2 minutes or less and then answer the questions in timed conditions of 5-6 minutes. Full sentences are not required for the answers, but it is important that pupils are in the practice of timing themselves to these specifications.
Breakfast and Afterschool Club Every parent has Wisepay details and a password, which will enable you to book a place for ‘Breakfast Club’ or ‘After School Club’. Payments must be made in advance. If you experience any problems, please contact Ms Chaggar who will be happy to help. Breakfast is available each day from 7.45am and costs just £2.50 per day. The children enjoy a range of cereals, toast and different topping, juice or milk and fruit. Any child attending must be brought to the main reception area by 8.20am at the latest. After School Club runs from 3.45pm – 6.00pm (3.00pm – 6.00pm on Tuesdays) and costs just £5.50 per hour. The children enjoy a range of snacks each evening and a variety of games and activities.
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Reverend Marshall-Jones visits Year 3
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Year 5 pupils visit Greenwich Royal Observatory Last week Year 5 pupils travelled to Greenwich Royal Observatory to continue their learning based around the topic of: What’s Out of This World? Pupils had the opportunity to explore the observatory museum, learning about the different planets, their individual features and identifying facts about the galaxies surrounding us. The highlight of the trip was the ‘Universe on your Doorstep’ workshop that all classes attended which gave them an interactive insight into our solar system and initiated some interesting discussions between pupils. We also saw a fantastic view of London from the top of the hill which made the steep climb very worthwhile!
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Indoor Athletics On Thursday 30th January 2020, twelve of our Year 5 pupils represented INA in the Redbridge Indoor Athletics competition at Beal High School. The pupils all performed in two field events (jumping or throwing) and at least one running event, and competed against ten other schools. All of our athletes showed hard work and independence, but above all they displayed incredible grit when competing against mostly Year 6 pupils from other schools within the borough. Ms Bashir and I are extremely proud of the pupils and were particularly impressed by the encouragement and support the pupils showed one another both before and after their competitions. All field events were joint scores between 2 athletes.
Rahman J’Shawn Holland Nadia Khan Vivaldi Hashim Kamil Ali Zaara Ali Ghiyas Elahi Tara Rani Kaur Naniyah Owusu Hammad Siddique Hari Virdee Ceylan Warner Taileferre Fahmid Khan Swara Kinhikar
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Wonderful Writing Week
It was great to see so many children bringing in examples of their great handwriting from home and to see so many pupils trying really hard to improve their writing in their lessons last week. I know the teachers found it really hard to choose who to award the certificates to. Well done and congratulations to the following pupils for working hard on their handwriting during the Wonderful Handwriting Week: Curie Class – Sahej Singh & Anshdeep Thind Maxwell Class – Jayan Khanna & Henry Singh Josan Newton Class – Riqbah Islam & Dawood Alam Britten Class – Nafiz Hossain Jamal & Anabia Nawab Fitzgerald Class – Aadam Dakri & Anoop Tilk Glennie Class – Haniah Bilal & Ibrahim Yasin Al-Kashi Class – Hong Yip & Fatima Kashif Fibonacci Class – Saad Bhutawala & Medina Islam Pythagoras Class – Halima Chand & Hessan Raja Bibi Ellington Class – Zoya Butt & Nobin Choudhury Nicks Class – Adam Chowdhury & Amanah Ali Shankar Class – Maria Mohamed Faiz & Anna Kiseleva Lovelace Class – Zakariyah Iqbal & Navneet Matharu Mirzakhani Class – Aariz Chaudhry & Srisakthi Valmurugan Ramanujan Class – Ali Haroon & Safwan Khan Rahman Class – Inaaya Ijaz and Osman Dean Tailleferre Class – Gurkirpa Hunjan & Meerab Dar Vivaldi Class – Charan Chaggar & Ghiyas Elahi
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Coronavirus Advice The government is closely monitoring the spread of the Coronavirus and is taking action at home and abroad. The overall risk of Coronavirus to the UK remains moderate. However we understand that people may be concerned where there are children, students or staff returning from or visiting China. Public Health England and the Foreign Office have issued advice for anyone travelling to the area. This can be found at: • •
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/china https://www.gov.uk/government/news/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-and-avian-flu-advice-fortravel-to-china
NHS ADVICE
If you have recently travelled to a high-risk area - or if you've been in contact with somebody who has - and you develop symptoms, you should contact NHS 111 for advice. You should not go to the doctor or to hospital, as if you have the virus, you may risk spreading it to others. The NHS is asking anybody who has recently travelled to Wuhan to self-quarantine themselves for 14 days. Latest information and advice can also be found at: • https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/wuhan-novel-coronavirus/ • https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
ADVICE FOR PARENTS/GUARDIANS
You should not be unduly worried about the possibility of your children catching the Coronavirus. There is no reason why your children should not continue to attend their early years, school or further education setting as normal. We recognise that some families or children may be planning to travel to China during the forthcoming half term period. If so, please refer to the FCO’s latest travel advice via the link above.
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Praise and Recognition
Every week each teacher chooses two children from their class to receive a certificate in assembly; one is in recognition of a child demonstrating our BRIDGES habit of the week, and the other in recognition of a pupil’s academic effort throughout the week. Well done to the following children, who have been recognised this week: Curie Class:
Sahej Singh – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for improving her concentration and developing her reading skills). Adam Gharib – Scholar of the Week (for developing his sentences by including ‘red’ phonics words). Maxwell Class:
Annas Hossain - Headteacher’s Habits Award (for improving his concentration and managing his distractions). Zakariyya Din – Scholar of the Week (for making good progress with his reading). Newton Class:
Nihal Muhammad – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for trying really hard to manage his distractions during independent learning). Safiyah Motin – Scholar of the Week (for using adjectives when describing the Gruffalo). Britten Class:
Ahmad Musa – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for always showing great positivity in all areas of his learning). Yahya Palejwala – Scholar of the Week (for showing enthusiasm in all areas of learning). Fitzgerald Class:
Khubaib Shahzad – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating excellent concentration on the Bug Rug and at his table). Khadeeja Nadir Khan – Scholar of the Week (for some excellent place value learning in maths).
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Glennie Class:
Fouzia Miah – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing patience and resilience when starting a new school). Shaan Bihal – Scholar of the Week (for trying so hard at improving his presentation and sentences in his writing). Al-Kashi Class:
Jasnoor Kaur – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for managing all her distractions and concentrating in all her lessons). Hamza Ahmed – Scholar of the Week (for working really hard when solving fractions of amounts and shapes). Fibonacci Class:
Huzaifah Iqbal – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using his grit skills to keep practising finding fractions of numbers). Nidhi Jogia – Scholar of the Week (for reading with fluency and expression during whole class reading). Pythagoras Class:
Aaron Kitaure – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for managing his distractions during his learning time). Aleeza Arshad – Scholar of the Week (for being able to edit her writing by making corrections to her sentences). Ellington Class:
Sana Abbas – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for an increased level of concentration in all lessons). Anmeek Sood – Scholar of the Week (for showing real grit in maths when reading the time to the nearest hour). Nicks Class:
Leja Kolyciute – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing great grit when learning to read a clock to the nearest minute). Rajan Mann – Scholar of the Week (for showing a fantastic scholarly attitude in all of his lessons). 7 February 2020 Primary Newsletter
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Shankar Class:
Nyla Moses-Philips – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing great determination when learning to tell the time). Anna Jilani – Scholar of the Week (for assisting her peers with their learning and for encouraging those around her to work hard). Lovelace Class
Zakariyah Iqbal – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for managing his distractions well in all his lessons this week). Aysha Islam – Scholar of the Week (for writing adventurous sentences using the tier words in whole class reading lessons this week). Mirzakhani Class:
Rohan Sharma – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for his determination and motivation to help others construct their chocolate box). Hanad Ali – Scholar of the Week (for his excellent engagement and positive attitude towards learning this week). Ramanujan Class:
Safwan Khan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for improving his concentration in all lessons). Ahmer Amher – Scholar of the Week (for challenging himself during maths lessons on fractions). Rahman Class:
Lara Burvill – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for persevering even when faced with learning challenges). J’Shawn Holland – Scholar of the Week (for showing excellent drama skills and using expression during his class assembly rehearsals). Tailleferre Class:
Arjun Bihal – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing great determination and an increased concentration in all areas of learning). Muhammad Aadam – Scholar of the Week (for his increased effort and hard work in all areas of learning especially in maths).
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Vivaldi Class:
Zaynul Bagwan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for consistently showing good manners and being polite and thoughtful in everything he does). Musa Mallik – Scholar of the Week (for making tremendous progress in all areas of the curriculum).
Merits The following pupils have received 25 merits since September for making good choices and moving up to gold on the class ‘good choice chart’ – this is fantastic achievement. A special ‘bronze’ certificate will be presented during the Celebration and Awards Assembly. Zayn Miah Jasson Maheshwaran Rufaida Hasnat Yasin Alom Musa Syed Saif Hossain Aadam Dakri Affan Rasool Yaseen Uddin Ayaan Hussain Riaz Eisa Ali Musa Ali Haniah Bilal Yuvraj Chaggar Miriam Mirza Moazan Saraj Bushra Rahman Sarrinah Mohammed Numair Muhammad Fahmid Khan Sohana Hoque Tyler Fraser Clarke Yusuf Mahmud Diya Napal Navneet Mathuru
The following pupils have received 50 merits since September for making good choices and moving up to gold on the class ‘good choice chart’ – this is fantastic achievement. A special ‘silver’ certificate will be presented during the Celebration and Awards Assembly. Aahil Mubarak Azmain Islam
Kareem Al-Khouli
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Attendance
Regular attendance is a crucial factor in students’ educational development and ability to achieve their full potential. At Isaac Newton Academy every student is set the target of 100% attendance. The class with the highest attendance for the phase by the end of every week is awarded the attendance trophy during Friday’s Award & Recognition assembly.
Early Years and Key Stage 1 Curie Maxwell Newton
99.3% 94.0% 97.3%
Britten Fitzgerald Glennie
98.3% 98.0% 97.7%
Al-Kashi Fibonacci Pythagoras
99.0% 94.3% 96.0%
Well done and congratulations to Curie Class who are the winners this week with 99.3%.
Key Stage 2 Ellington Nicks Shankar
97.7% 95.9% 96.3%
Lovelace Mirzakhani Ramanujan
97.7% 98.7% 98.3%
Rahman Tailleferre Vivaldi
96.7% 98.3% 98.3%
Well done and congratulations to Mirzakhani Class who are the winners this week with 98.7%.
Overall Attendance: 97.3% National average attendance for primary schools is 97.1%. It is important that the children attend school every day and do not miss any learning. Thank you for your support in ensuring your child is at school every day.
We always strive for 100%.
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Headteacher’s Lunch Well done to the following pupils who have been nominated for the Headteacher’s Lunch for next Friday 13th February 2020. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Safa Jannat - Curie Jasnoor Kaur - Al-Kashi Yusha Master - Mirzakhani Gia Mya Kalia - Maxwell Medina Islam - Fibonacci Maya Kimborowicz Ramanujan Zayaan Malik - Newton Aaron Kitaure - Pythagoras Tulsi Jogia - Rahman Maxi Kimborowicz - Britten Gurjas Dhanjal - Ellington Gurkirpa Hunjun Ahmed Khan - Fitzgerald Isa Ijaz - Nicks Tailleferre Tripat Kaur - Glennie Zara Khan - Shankar Raina Islam - Vivaldi Azmain Islam - Lovelace
Composer of the Fortnight Germaine Taileferre
For the next few weeks we will be listening to and learning about Germaine Tailleferre as our Composer of the Fortnight as well as listening to other Chinese folk songs for Children. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Tailleferre in preparation for the coming weeks. You can find out some facts and hear some of her music on the following links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Tailleferre http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/germaine-tailleferre-346.php 7 February 2020 Primary Newsletter
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BRIDGES in the Primary Phase “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.� Isaac Newton BRIDGES are habits of mind or learning characteristics that develop a pupil's character and learning power and enable him/her to grow into a well-rounded individual and resilient learner. There are seven BRIDGES habits that we will be working on, which will rotate on a weekly cycle throughout the year. The BRIDGES habit of the week will always be introduced at the beginning of the week during the Monday assembly and reinforced throughout the week across the curriculum. Each class teacher will award a certificate to a pupil that they feel has demonstrated the BRIDGES focus for the week. Each week we will update you on the BRIDGES habit that will be introduced in the coming week and offer some top tips on how to reinforce the habit at home too. Please also refer to the Primary BRIDGES wheel below.
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Week commencing 10th February 2020
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence comprises seven dispositions: Empathy Sociability Reflectiveness Listening Collaboration Understanding Openness At School •
At school we always remind the children to treat others in the way that they would like to be treated in return.
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At school we talk about having good listening skills and that we must look at the person who is talking to us to show respect for them and that we are listening to them properly.
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During every lesson the children are encouraged to develop their sociability by talking to their talk partner, when some children find this hard to do; an adult will sit and help facilitate paired talk. During the course of the year the children will be moved around and will have been encouraged to have different reading partners, maths partners etc.
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We discuss the importance of working together as one big team or family at school and that we need to take care of everybody – we use the phrase ‘kind hands, kind feet’ to remind children that we do not hurt others.
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When a child hurts someone or makes a poor behaviour choice, it is important that they reflect on their behaviour and if another person is involved, that they apologise to them.
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Through wider reading and research the children are able to extend their understanding of the world around them, reflecting on what makes things different and what are the common thread through life.
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Though reading stories the children can develop their skills of empathy through their comprehension of the characters, their motivations etc.
At Home • Having consistent boundaries between home and school is very important. • Talk to your child about the importance of not hurting or hitting other children and that we need to treat everyone kindly and respectfully. • We know that you have equally high expectations of your child at home as we at school and working in partnership has great strength in supporting your child to make good choices each day.
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Spring Term 2020 Monday 6th January –Friday 3rd April 2020 INSET Days Friday 14th February
Thursday 13th February
Break Up for Half Term – 3.45pm
Friday 14th February
INSET day - no school for pupils
Monday 17th – Friday 21st February
HALF TERM
Thursday 27th February
High Attainers Parent Workshop - 9.00am & 6.00pm
Monday 2nd March
Home & Family Week – No enrichment clubs
Monday 2nd March
Literature & Wonderful Handwriting Week
Thursday 5th March
World Book Day – (Dress up as a book character)
Friday 6th March
Tailleferre Class Assembly – Year 5 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 6th March
Pythagoras Class Assembly – Year 2 – 10.20 – 10.40am
Thursday 12th March
Relationships and Sex Education Workshop – Year 4 Parents - 9.00 & 6.00pm
Friday 20th March
Vivaldi Class Assembly – Year 5 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 20th March
Al-Kashi Class Assembly – Year 2 – 10.20 – 10.40am
Wednesday 25th March
PE Spring Spectacular
Thursday 26th March
Parent Coffee Morning – 9.00am
Monday 30th March
Easter Egg Hunts
Monday 30th March
End of Term Assemblies – TBC
Wednesday 1st April
Easter Bonnet Parade
Friday 3rd April
Pupils finish at 12.15pm
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